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Big disk win, what do you think? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just picked up 17 x 1-TB HDDs at $120 total on craigslist. All WD, Seagate, and Toshiba.

What do we think?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From a price point of view that was not a good deal in terms of $/TB, but, if you need a lot of throughput you can easily create a 17 disk RAID6 array, but this requires an LFF storage system that can handle these many drives. Do you have such a system already or what was the idea to buy this many 1TB drives? Can you elaborate more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't plan to run them all simultaneously. I'll have 3 data sets:

My main storage 1 TB, with a syncing copy of the whole TB on another machine and 1 offline copy updated perhaps every few months.
My family photos and videos, allocating 1 TB to the photographer of the family, with a synced copy attached to a digital photo frame.
My home video media server hosted on a cloud storage app I wrote myself. I probably won't put in any redundancy for that set and will focus on size.

I haven't learned RAID yet, but will sometime.